Until a few months ago, Getsemani Ramirez didn’t think she’d be able to go to college.
Ramirez, a senior at Sam Houston High School in Arlington, dreams of working in the medical field. Someday, she wants to open a clinic in her neighborhood in East Arlington to help people who couldn’t afford to get care anywhere else.
But she knew those dreams required a college education, something no one else in her family had gotten. She also knew her parents wouldn’t be able to help financially. So at the end of her junior year, she began to resign herself to the idea of not going to college and doing something else with her life instead…